What was the worst (or funniest) thing you got caught doing at a meeting? (page 2)

MeneMene

I was at an assembly with my baby - maybe 6 mos old. He got fussy and I was holding him on my lap facing out toward the people in front of us. He projectile vomited (stinky sour milk) on the brother sitting in front of us. It got the back of his head and down the back of his clothes.

Outaservice

During my very first talk (a Bible reading/talk #2) my cousin at the very back of the Hall was holding up a big sign, trying to make me more nervous, that simply said 'ZIPPER!'.

Outaservice (who has always had a hard time with public talks, even years later)

kittyeatzjdubs

I was holding the PO's 2 year old daughter during the meeting one night, and she was in the middle of being potty trained. So she falls asleep towards the end of the meeting and I just sit with her in my lap during the concluding prayer. Next thing I know, my lap is very warm and VERY VERY wet.....

Same child, few weeks later at the bookstudy....during the concluding prayer AGAIN...she pukes all over me...and not just a little barf...I'm talking like half a gallon all over me, my bible (yay!), the couch, carpet....everywhere.

There was also one thing that happened to me that was embarassing at the time, but is now funny b/c it makes sense that a child would act like this...I have ALWAYS ALWAYS hated meetings. Not just because of the things being said or taught, but b/c I have always had a short attention span. I easily get distracted at my job and in everyday life, so you can imagine how meetings were. Anyway...so I was about 5 or 6 at the time and we were at the school meeting, or whatever the one in the middle of the week during the evening is called, and I'm so bored I seriously think I'm about to die. So the brother goes up on stage and says, ''Now to conclude our school and go into our kingdom ministry (I missed the KM part...I thought the whole thing was over) please turn to song 666.''

So I take this as meaning I am free. YAY! So I stand up, turn around and stretch, and loudly proclaim, "Finally! It's over!''

Everyone started giggling, the brother almost fell off the stage laughing, and I thought my mother was going to rip my head off.

Worst part?....We were on the front row....and I had to sit still for another 45 minutes.

~luv, jojo

zensim

The normal stuff as a child, getting a bad case of the giggles up and then the more you try and restrain it the funnier it is. My brother and I would often do that one. Actually, I was still doing it well into adult life with my girlfriends also.

My husband and I were were notoriously always late for meetings, generally coming in just on the prayer or just as the prayer finished. One day we actually got there 5 mins early and as we were walking in our five year old daughter said at the top of her voice "Mum, has the meeting finished?" - she had only seen people mingling at the end of the meeting!

Worst was when I was in my late teens and giving a student talk on the front school. I was a good speaker and quite experienced. I decided to do a standing part. Lost my way in the introduction and my mind just went a COMPLETE blank - it was scary. I couldn't find my place in the notes and I froze. So then I just walked off the stage, straight to the toilets out the back and then burst into tears. Everyone was really kind to me afterwards but I was just mortified.

metaspy

I was 10. It was at the bookstudy. the arrangement of chairs was in a large oval. I was sitting just about the middle of one of the sides. I had locked my feet behind the bar on the front side of the chair. As the meeting progressed, I dozed off. I was out just long enough to loose my center of balance. When I felt myself tipping, I awoke and tried to center myself. However, I could not move my legs and I started to fall forward. I landed in the middle of the bookstudy face first on the floor. The brother conducting simply looked down and said "Well, somebody fell asleep." Then he continued conducting the bookstudy.

zensim

When I was 13yo I was staying with my best friend and we went out in service. We were put together (who puts two 13yo's together in service?) and we were just giggling and laughing so much. At one door the man answered it and we both just stood there laughing so hard we couldn't talk, so we just turned and walked away. The worst thing was that my friend had a bit of a bladder control problem when she laughed really hard and she was saying to me as we walked away "I think I am going to pee my pants" so we were walking very quickly. I was so scared she was going to leave a trail down the driveway!

bernadette

I remember the time I was eating a large very ripe tomato at the convention during break - unfortunately the tomato split at the back and sprayed all over the brother in front. very embarrassing.

free2think

Bernadette, did you tell the brother about the tomato juice or hope he didn't notice?

free2think

Honesty

Our happy little JW family (myself, wife and two kids) had a part on the Service Meeting. About halfway through it I heard snickering and looked out in the hall to see what was going on. Nothing there. Then, I looked around the platform and saw my two year-old son proudly displaying the big green trophy he had just mined out of his nose.

bernadette

free2think u are a mind reader - I was too embarrassed to tell him. He must have thought it was raining or something. He just flinched but didn't turn around. Trouble is I had to spend the rest of the day with my handiwork in front of me. Coward that I am. Please forgive me brother, I repent and I promise to tell u the next time it happens.

Are tomato juice stains permanent?

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